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This brief document provides an overview of what person-centred care is and why it is important. It sets out how person-centred care is a way of thinking and doing things that sees the people using health and social services as equal partners in planning, developing and monitoring care to make sure it meets their needs and argues that it is a key component of developing high quality healthcare.

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This report argues for giving citizens greater control over their own health and care, so that services are redesigned around their needs and aspirations, to improve health outcomes and to save money by supporting people better to manage their conditions themselves.

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This report focuses on the need to successfully engage the public in difficult decisions about changing services. It begins with case studies sharing the experiences and learning from three different reconfiguration projects, followed by a series of top tips on how to get public engagement right.

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This webpage summarises findings from work by researchers from Harvard Medical Shool on behalf of Picker Institute and The Commonewalth Fund. It draws on a literature review and wide range of focus groups to identify 8 Principles of Patient Centred Care that are needed to meet the Institute of Medicine's definition of patient-centred care.

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This directory of person-centred care organisations around the world was produced as part of an international environment scan of the field of person-centred care undertaken by Health Policy Partnership.